Over the past several months, various news outlets have been prognosticating the flight of young conservative women from the Republican Party. In March, New York magazine focused on what it called “the young women leaving the new right.” Now Politico has suggested that a Turning Point USA conference in San Antonio, Texas this past weekend shows that “bubbling under the surface are divisions within the GOP that have enveloped the online voices of the young right and a budding disillusionment among young women with the second Trump administration. It’s all part of a growing divide between being “MAGA” in 2026 and being “America First.”

But that’s not what I saw at the very same conference. Far from abandoning Trump, the conference goers appeared to channel the defiant spirit of the fabled Texas cry, “Remember the Alamo!” When Riley Gaines, the champion swimmer turned MAGA advocate, declared that for the media nothing was worse than being a “Triple Trump” voter – “the most cancellable of offenses” – the ballroom was awash in cheers from the thousand or so young women........

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